Embroidery-frame



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N. C. LEONARD. EMBROIDERY FRAME.

No. 597,007. Patented Jan. 11,1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Erica NORRIS CLAYTON LEONARD, OF MCMINNVILLE, TENNESSEE.

EMBROIDERY-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,007, dated January 11, 1898.

Application filed March 16, 1897.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Beitknown that I, Nonnis CLAYTON LEON- ARD, of McMinnville, in the county of Varren and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Embroidery- Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide an embroidery-frame of very simple, durable, and economic construction and wherein the hoops of the frame maybe expeditiously and convenient-ly adjusted-not only to different sizes of material but likewise to different thicknesses, thus doing away with the necessity of having different pairs of hoops for each size of material to be worked upon.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims. l

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure lis a horizontal section through the improved frame and through the goods contained in the frame. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a flat view of aportion of one of the hoops, showing a slight modification in the construction of the same; and Fig. 4 is a sectional View of a hoop broken away at the center and stretched dat, illustrating the position of the locking-pins of the hoop.

The frame consists of an inner open hoop A and an outer open hoop B, between which two hoops the material C to be worked is held. The hoops maybe made of any desired material and are of such dimensions thatl their ends will lap one over the other. The inner hoop A is provided with apertures 10, somewhat closely grouped and longitudinally arranged, the apertures being in series, several apertures or a series of them being provided for each size, admitting an adjustment of the inner hoop with relation to the outer hoop to accommodate goods of different thickness.

A pin 11 is located at each end of the inner hoop A, and a pin 12 is likewise secured at each end of the outer hoop. These pins point in opposite directions and are adapted to enter the most convenient apertures in the Serial No. 627,821. (No model.)

hoops, and they are given the opposite ineli nation (shown particularly in Fig. 4) that the lap may be firmly held in place. The outer hoop B may be provided,and preferably is provided,with a series of single apertures 13, A

placed quite near together in order that quick and proper adjustment of the frame may be secured.

Each hoop is shown in Figs. l and 2 as provided with two sliding hoops 14 of suflicient dimensions to somewhat snugly receive the two members of the hoop where their end portions are lapped. y

In operation the outer hoop or band is adj usted to the surface that is to be worked upon and the pins 12, carried by the ends of the outer hoop, are made to enter the most convenient apertures 13in the same hoop, as shown in Fig. 1. The -slides are then carried over the lapped portions of the said outer hoop at the extremitiesof the lap, firmly holding the pins in the aforesaid apertures. The material having been placed in position, the inner hoop is made to engage with the inner face of the material and is adjusted to the thickness of the material and likewise to bind as closely as possible against the outer hoop. The inner hoop is locked in its adjusted position in similar manner to the outer hoop.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a slight modification in the construction of the hoop7 in which the sliding loops or slides 14 are omitted and at Veach end upon each side lips 15 are formed,

which are to be bent downward transversely at the body of a hoop at either the front or at the back to form guides and likewise clamps for the lapped portions of the hoops. These lips may likewise be placed at any desired point intermediate of the ends of the hoops, While the loop-slide may be employed upon. the other loop.

Under such a construction of embroideryframe it is evident that material may be quickly placed and held in a position to be worked upon and also that one pair of hoops may be used upon work differing in size and that a proper adjustment of the hoops maybe effected whether the material be thick or thin.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatenti l. As an improved article of manufacture,

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of apertures and with pins at their ends to enter the apertures, said pins pointing in opposite directions, and clamps held to slide on the hoops, being adapted to embrace the lapped portions thereof and prevent the pins from leaving the apertures accidentally when once they are entered therein, as and for l(he zo purpose specified.

NORRS CLAYTON LEONARD.

lVitnesses:

GEO. M. SMITH, FRANK CoLVILLn. 

